"Densmore Shute Bends the Shaft, 1938"
Dr. Harold Edgerton,
the M.I.T. professor who pioneered the art of high-speed photography
Advances in technology have allowed us to observe a level of glorious detail in God's creation that has been previously hidden from us. Dr. Harold Edgerton at M.I.T. pioneered the art of high speed photography, allowing us to see the remarkable movements of the hummingbird, the golfer's swing, and a bullet's path of destruction through an apple.(http://pietyandhumanity.blogspot.com/2009/04/slow-down-and-behold-glory-of-god.html)
* 1931: development of strobe photography by Harold ("Doc") Edgerton at MIT. By adjusting the frequency of the strobe's flashes to the rotation speed of the whirling parts of a motor, he was able to observe the parts as if they were stationary. In 1931 he developed and improved strobes and used them to freeze objects in motion so that they could be captured on film by a camera. HEE designed the first successful underwater camera in 1937 and deep sea electronic flash equipment in 1953. He developed special sonar applications to facilitate location of underwater objects and devised pingers to enable underwater cameras to be accurately positioned above the sea floor. In 1953, he worked alongside oceanographer Jaques Cousteau.(http://webpages.maine207.org/east/departments/art/literacy%20website/art%20documents/Photo%20timeline.htm)
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